Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The banks are businesses too and we do not want to see them closed down . ’ |
| 2 | Any unwanted guest soon found himself bundled down to one of the lower floors . |
| 3 | Oh well we d did n't know if we were supposed to be congregating with rest of the people , or what so we just wandered we wandered down the hall |
| 4 | They say it went down to minus ten last night . ’ |
| 5 | Deliberately , Madeleine had selected a dress to wear which buttoned down the front to the waist . |
| 6 | When he was not looking I came down and took the car . |
| 7 | She says I wrote down two Keema naans or whatever , . |
| 8 | " When these telegrams came I ran down and opened the door to the boy and I showed them to Mummy and she began very bravely , how lovely dear , and then began to cry and shut herself in her room . |
| 9 | When the order came she reached down to help an older woman to her feet and passed her the well-wrapped bundle , then she turned her back on the men and was swallowed by the mass of female prisoners . |
| 10 | At Beni Suef we got down into a dusty twilight . |
| 11 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 12 | And the same smile had made him put down his pen after his brief , troubled sleep . |
| 13 | As Nancy slid the first tape into her video machine I settled down to watch her at work , but , throughout , the advice offered me on the screen was interspersed with more from the sofa next to me , where she sat eagerly adding a tumult of tips to those already being relayed . |
| 14 | What I did was I got I went down to the print room and I got a piece of A one paper and I mean if you want to use Chris |
| 15 | Hamilton claimed one shot down , probably the aircraft ( J9+JH ) of Ill/St.G I flown by Ofhr . |
| 16 | Fortunately a supply of candles was found and as the competing teams and their supporters arrived they settled down to some serious drinking as darts players do and nearly cleared the stock of bottled beer before the lights came back on . |
| 17 | There followed a short lull , but from 1620 onwards a succession of attacks by small formations of S.79s commenced but all were successfully beaten off , mainly by the intense gunfire of the ships , although Yellow Section of 808 Squadron , two Fulmars flown by Lt. A.T.J. Kindersley and Lt. Hay , R.M. , caught one bomber at 1710 and claimed it shot down . |
| 18 | ‘ Put the Bronica in my rucsac and claimed it went down with you . ' |
| 19 | Well I do n't fully I do n't think we turned down this particular site in the Shilton area before . |
| 20 | I eat , I went , when I went round to Maryanne and my baked bread next door , I like I went down , I went in there before , before I went upstairs into the flat , and bought a , a roll for twelve P . |
| 21 | I know I went down to see him , he 's got a really everybody 's dying are n't they ? |
| 22 | And that , er it was kind of and the garden was small cos we had it , a quite big garden and you know things like that , I think , and the travelling and everything I think got her down a bit , I know she sat down and had a cry , yeah . |
| 23 | I remember she crouched down and lifted me on to the table . |
| 24 | Closing her bag with a defiant snap she lay down again , very suddenly , against the disordered pillows , a heavy odour of musk and cigar smoke in her nostrils , a great weight of weariness coming near to sweeping her away . |
| 25 | I think there was somebody called who came down the isle and gave a couple of balloons . |
| 26 | Yes I I remember we went down a very long cul-de-sac at one stage on self containment did n't we . |
| 27 | Remember we went down that slate mine ? |
| 28 | When he returned he fell down on the floor clutching his heart in an agonia of pain and trembling . |
| 29 | Fortunately I had heavy duty minders in the form of my sister , Karen , mum and aunt , who were able to keep the kids in line while I translated the menu and discovered it came down to largely burgers , chicken , steaks and ‘ flipper friendly ’ fish . |
| 30 | Without waiting to be invited he sat down beside her and crossed his legs , the trousers riding up almost to his calf . |